Posts by Kate Ellis
Three tips for managing cyber security skills in government
Bringing IT talent into an organisation can be a herculean task at the best of times, but as any hiring manager responsible for digital skills will tell you, there’s no challenge quite like cybersecurity. According to a study from Burning Glass, filling cyber security roles takes 20 per cent more time than typical IT roles.…
Read MoreHow Critical Industries Can Prepare for SOCI Act Reforms
Our nation’s critical infrastructure is a highly connected system – one that supports and drives our day-to-day operations as businesses and as a nation. However, connectivity without security creates vulnerabilities that can have immense repercussions. With this in mind, this June, the Australian Government will announce reforms to the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act…
Read MoreOn-premise exodus: tips for migrating legacy applications in the public-sector
At the start of 2020, IDC predicted that public and private cloud spending would outperform “traditional IT spending” – think on-premise IT and legacy applications – in the forthcoming year. Of course, they weren’t accounting for a global pandemic, which has sent cloud spending into the stratosphere, while traditional IT spending wanes. Supporting this continued…
Read MoreSecure Internet Gateways – is there a better way?
When the Federal Government introduced the Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) program in 2010, it was a great leap forward in cyber security. The program allowed agencies to easily assess and procure a range of ASD accredited SIG packages, with the ASD’s ‘stamp of approval’ providing assurance that the solution was robust and up to all…
Read MoreWhy increased data regulation is a good thing for Australian healthcare providers
Healthcare organisations – both within Australia and across the world – have traditionally been fairly slow-moving when it comes to the adoption of innovative digital services. This is especially true in the realm of cybersecurity and data privacy, with a lack of hard-and-fast regulatory guidelines resulting in a patchwork of data privacy and compliance standards. The…
Read MoreWhy data privacy and its management contributes to your GRC measures
Cybersecurity is a balancing act, bridging the perceptual dichotomy between protection and productivity. It’s not an easy task but it can be made easier by considering it in the context of organisational Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) measures. Fundamentally, GRC is a combined approach towards governance, risk, and compliance, aided by information technology. While GRC…
Read MoreData storage alone isn’t enough: the importance of effective data classification
Over the last two years, we as a nation have greatly shifted our view on how personal data should be handled and stored. First came the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where Facebook enabled the organisation to harvest data from over 300,000 Australian user profiles. This was then followed by the EU’s GDPR regulations, which sought to…
Read MoreHow government and critical infrastructure can eliminate identity conflict
Government and critical infrastructure are struggling to manage disparate identity processes and siloed physical and digital access systems in the face of rising cyber threats. Daltrey’s Michael Warnock says a universal biometric identity could be the solution. Sovereign capability is essential for secure identity The increase in serious cyberattacks on Australian organisations is a worrying…
Read MoreBolstering Security Across Australia’s Critical Infrastructure
COVID-19 has no doubt ignited tremendous change across all facets of Australian life, with our nation facing some of the biggest challenges we’ve seen in decades. Following increased cyber-attacks since the start of the pandemic, the Australian Government has realised the importance of protecting our critical infrastructure and moving towards a strategy aimed at safeguarding…
Read MoreHow local NSW districts digitally transformed through COVID-19
How local NSW districts digitally transformed through COVID-19 The healthcare sector’s immediate response to COVID-19 has prioritised managing and mitigating the direct impact of the disease – from implementing new transmission-aware behaviour and increasing available space in hospitals, to creating new test and trace processes. But that focus has also significantly affected the industry in…
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